Namecheap has taken down Neo-Nazi site Daily Stormer

Sunday, 20 August 2017Neo-nazi news site Daily Stormer will need to find another host after Namecheap announced on Sunday that it will not host the site. The hate site was registered with the company on Friday after being kicked off of GoDaddy, Google Domains, and a Russian registrar earlier this week before being shut down by each.

On Friday, the company’s Twitter account began replying to users about the registration, saying its legal and abuse department was “already looking into it.”

Hi, thanks a lot for reporting this case. Our Legal&Abuse department is already looking into it.

— Namecheap.com (@Namecheap) August 18, 2017

In a blog post, Namecheap CEO Richard Kirkendall said that he examined the content of the website, and found that “paired with...

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